Continuing the theme from the bowl project, I want to make an artist book for my second artifact that responds to similar ideas of covid 19, loneliness, vulnerability and isolation. using materials and processes explored within the bowl project. I will continue to explore printmaking methods, paper making and will introduce binding to create a book structure that explores the above. I would also like to continue with the use of paper, ink, printmaking and tracing/tissue paper to emphasise the vulnerability and isolation. I am hoping to enclose this elderly person within the book so the feeling of isolation resonated from the form and the sense of being overwhelmed and vulnerable is evident. I want to explore my options with the form of the book, this could take shape as a concertina book, a zine style fold out form or a book structure with a sewn spine, this is something I will explore as my printing takes place.
MOVING FORWARD I have booked to have a meeting with Doreen from the special book collection at uni to discuss my ideas and book within the collection. I have also booked to use the print studio this week so I am hoping to continue my exploration into dry point printing, possibly collagraph and letterpress. As I have limited access and time i may have to come up with simplified alternatives to some of the print process I wish to explore so that I can continue my exploration at home.
Thinking about my final major project, I want to incorporate printmaking and papermaking with bookbinding as my interests lie with the sculptural form of the book as the skill for me lies in the combination of tradition and print using individual processes, structures and paper manipulation and paper cut in order to create a book form that explores these processes, this may take the form of a usable journal or, sculptural form an artist book.
I quite like the idea of a book being a passage for the imagination and the form of a book forces the viewer to consider its own concepts and ideas through the form.
This is a definition I found from UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES…
“An artist book is a work of art that plays with the book in some form. Usually these artist books are either produced in limited editions or as singular works. These books are different from fine press books, high-quality books printed in limited editions, because they break away from the traditional book form to play with it in new and interesting ways. Book artists expand the boundaries of what we think a book should be and look like”.
University Libraries. 2020. Contemporary Female Book Artists. [online] Available at: <https://library.wustl.edu/contemporary-female-book-artists/> [Accessed 1 December 2020].
Lara Hoad Artist Designer: Maker 